California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 7800.
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on geologists and geophysicists. It may be cited as the Geologist and Geophysicist Act.(Amended...
• Section 7801.
  (a) “Board,” as used in this chapter, means the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists established under Section 6710. Any reference in any law...
• Section 7802.
  “Geology,” as used in this chapter, refers to that science which treats of the earth in general; investigation of the earth’s crust and the rocks...
• Section 7802.1.
  “Geophysics,” as used in this chapter, refers to that science which involves study of the physical earth by means of measuring its natural and induced...
• Section 7803.
  “Geologist,” as used in this chapter, refers to a person engaged in the practice of geology.(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 942.)
• Section 7803.1.
  “Geophysicist,” as used in this chapter, refers to a person engaged in the practice of geophysics.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1396.)
• Section 7804.
  Only a person registered as a geologist under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the title “professional geologist.” Only...
• Section 7804.1.
  Only a person registered as a geophysicist under the provisions of this chapter shall be entitled to take and use the title “professional geophysicist.” Only...
• Section 7805.
  The term “responsible charge of work” means the independent control and direction by the use of initiative, skill and independent judgment of geological or geophysical...
• Section 7806.
  A subordinate is any person who assists a professional geologist or professional geophysicist in the practice of geology or geophysics without assuming the responsible charge...
• Section 7807.
  A qualified geologist is a person who possesses all the qualifications specified in Section 7841 for registration except that he is not registered.(Added by Stats....
• Section 7807.1.
  A qualified geophysicist is a person who possesses all the qualifications specified in Section 7841.1 for registration except that he is not registered.(Added by Stats....

Last modified: October 22, 2018